Word Meanings - CHITCHAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
Related words: (words related to CHITCHAT)
- FAMILIARLY
In a familiar manner. - TRIFLE
trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong - TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle. - TRIFLING
Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n. - TRIFLER
One who trifles. Waterland. - PRATTLE
To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym: - TRIFLUCTUATION
A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne. - FAMILIARITY
1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another - FAMILIARIZATION
The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood. - FAMILIARIZE
1. To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress. 2. To make acquainted, or skilled, by practice or study; as, to familiarize one's self - FAMILIAR
1. Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron. 2. Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures. 3. Characterized by, or exhibiting, the - FAMILIARNESS
Familiarity. - FAMILIARY
Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. Milton. - PRATTLEMENT
Prattle. Jeffrey. - PRATTLER
One who prattles. Herbert. - PRITTLE-PRATTLE
Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. Abp. Bramhall.